{"id":1685,"date":"2014-05-22T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/05\/22\/hey-shannon-this-is-old-news\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:24:07","slug":"hey-shannon-this-is-old-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Hey Shannon, This Is Old News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11834,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/TexasABC&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250713180725\\\/https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/TexasABC&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 07:10:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-08 09:21:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-26 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Watts would have you believe that Smashburger is going to be the next place they lobby to ban &#8220;open carry&#8221; thanks to open carry activists. That is, if you believe the tweets she sent out this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TexasABC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@texasabc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Smashburger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Smashburger<\/a> also serves alcohol: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/sAJjGcYQq4\">http:\/\/t.co\/sAJjGcYQq4<\/a> \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeGomezKRLD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoeGomezKRLD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23MomsDemand&amp;src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MomsDemand<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23gunsense&amp;src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#gunsense<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/9KJ8ypSIB3\">pic.twitter.com\/9KJ8ypSIB3<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014 Shannon (@shannonrwatts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shannonrwatts\/statuses\/469594520300961792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TexasABC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@texasabc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Smashburger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Smashburger<\/a> also serves alcohol: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/sAJjGcYQq4\">http:\/\/t.co\/sAJjGcYQq4<\/a> \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeGomezKRLD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoeGomezKRLD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23MomsDemand&amp;src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MomsDemand<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23gunsense&amp;src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#gunsense<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Ntztxm6LPG\">pic.twitter.com\/Ntztxm6LPG<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014 Shannon (@shannonrwatts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shannonrwatts\/statuses\/469594762563960832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only problem is that this is old news. Smashburger has had a policy in compliance with Texas ABC Board regulations that open carry of any sort is banned. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensivecarry.com\/forum\/open-carry-issues-discussions\/169049-no-open-carry-sign-smashburger.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They did this in 2013<\/a>. Prior to the clarification in ABC Board regulations, Smashburger was welcoming to open carriers.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/glocktalk.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=1522241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The picture below is from GlockTalk<\/a> in March of this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/smashburger-OC-GlockTalk-1024x768.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/smashburger-OC-GlockTalk-1024x768.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nTake a good look at that second picture she tweeted. It is the same one from this <a href=\"http:\/\/opencarrytexas.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/02\/why-open-carry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 2, 2013 blog post in Open Carry Texas.<\/a>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Next time Shannon tweets about a picture featuring open carry activists, take a good look. It probably is an old picture she is using to drum up business for Everytown Moms for Illegal Mayors.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Watts would have you believe that Smashburger is going to be the next place they lobby to ban&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[370,337,2607],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-open-carry-activism","tag-shannon-watts","tag-smashburger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9881,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/9881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}